Eating Well Cobb Salad

Another salad for dinner.  I’ve had cobb salads before and I generally really liked them. So, with this one, I was hoping for the best. The thing I liked about this recipe is that it didn’t include the blue cheese that normally comes with this dish. (I hate blue cheese which is interesting because it’s all my mother ate when she was pregnant with me.) It also included bacon which was super exciting!

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/the_eatingwell_cobb_salad.html

This was a reasonably filling salad. It had a lot of toppings but the avocado and tomato sections were significantly bigger than the bacon and egg sections. It had a really nice light dressing but we found it needed more for the amount of salad we made so we added a bit more olive oil. We also left out the cucumbers because my husband is adamantly against them.

We also made enough for four servings so it was lunch again the next day. This is the thing with salads; you can’t eat them two days in a row. It’s just not possible without losing your mind. I liked this one, but the next time I make it, I’m just going to make half and have it for a lunch, not a dinner.

Overall Rating:

Number of calories: 285/serving

Will I "Make Again"?:  Maybe for lunch

Tastiness?: 3/5

Fills my tummy?: 3/5

Also, finding a plus size sports bra is probably the most frustrating and disappointing endeavour of my entire life. I thought society wanted fat people to lose weight...  It’s the same with workout clothes in general. There are very few places that actually sell active wear in plus sizes and when they do, it’s at least twice the price as anywhere else. It’s like these stores don’t expect us bigger ladies to ever want to better ourselves. They must think we are happier being fat, (maybe because we eat) and that we are too lazy or something to try working out. I want to jog! I want to do jumping jacks!! I cannot do these things without a proper fitting sports bra unless I want to give myself two black eyes with my enormous bouncing chest.

But seriously, us bigger ladies need the support so we don’t hurt our shoulder and chest muscles when we work out. Ladies with little breasts need sports bras too, and they get them. Us big girls may need them more and we can’t find them anywhere. I looked at 4 different types yesterday and about a million bras and not one of them fit well or gave me the control I needed. Now I’ve done my internet research and I’m going out to search for better ones but my suspicion is that when I get to the retailers that carry these brands, they won’t have the larger sizes in stock... I hope I’m wrong.